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Gowrings Tractor Department Silver St Reading
by Goodonya (Posted Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:40:25 GMT) Les,--- Did you live in Mount Pleasant long enough to be able to recall Gowrings Tractor Department in Silver Street? After I left, I know that Gowrings moved everything down to Basingstoke Road, but not sure if the Tractor Dept went as well. Maybe if I mentioned some names it would jog a few Grey Cells with someone, do you think? Best Regards to All.
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Forum Get together, Spring 2010
by jonbryce (Posted Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:05:08 GMT) Les wrote:OK Folks, I have created the poll and it is the usual place at the head of the topic. In case someone spots I have deliberately omited Thursday 15th April because I know that some members interested cannot make this date. I decided that there is now not time to fit it in before Easter, so I have left it until afterwards. Please register your vote even if you have already noted your preferred days on a post. Please also nominate a venue of your choice, without ifs or buts, and one which you know will accomodate a larger number of people. Please do this again if you have already mentioned some venues in previous posts. Oh, and please  nothing spicy unless you want me to stay away 
Would it be possible to have a poll that allows multiple choices? Then people could vote for all the days they are available.
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"Street View" in Caversham
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Prospect Park Area
by cribsie (Posted Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:33:42 GMT) In Stuart Hylton's book 'Reading Places, Reading People' there's a map of Prospect Park Area 1911. The following text is attached; Pegsgreen Lane, which follows the present line of Honey End Lane and Tilehurst Road, is an ancient highway described in1840 as 'a track probably "as old as the hills" and retaining the rude simlicity and characteristic features of it's early origin- winding, shady and here and there patches of greensward and the gipsy's glen and the glorious carol of the song thrush'. A far cry from the present Tilehurst Road in the rush hour! It was along this track in 1688 that William of Orange and his Dutch troops passed on their way to London. On some old maps it originated on the Ridgeway, reaching Tilehurst via Hermitage, Bucklebury Common and Theale, entering Tilehurst via Pincents' Lane.
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New Shops Coming To The Town Centre
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Oxford Road Shops
by steveowen (Posted Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:59:05 GMT) 263 Oxford Road closed a few years back because it was being run as a brothel. It used to be a respectable sweet shop (called TWO SIX THREE) when I was a kid in the seventies. It was tiny inside. When you opened the door it almost reached the counter running the width of the shop. Behind the counter the wooden shelves were stacked with glass jars filled with every kind of hard-boiled sweet imaginable.
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Another moving to Reading question
by Smash (Posted Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:05:03 GMT) I don't drive and so am reliant on buses - they're expensive and full of buggies the size of spacecraft, but they get you where you need to go. Eventually.
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Early Morning Flights over Caversham
by Squash (Posted Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:06:27 GMT) I always thought that rumbling planes in the wee small hours were military support flights carrying troops and equipment. The ones that wake me do not sound like passenger jets and seem to go north-south not east-west.
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